I have been listening to Fred Minnick on the Bourbon Pursuit podcast that he contributes to and then I saw he had a book about women and whiskey and bought it.
Whenever I read a book about women in history, I wonder what the world would be like if weak men weren’t so damn scared of women.
Whiskey Women brings a few women from whiskey history to the fore and if any of them had as much rope to use as men did, wow, would Bourbon, Scotch and Whiskey be different.
We learn about poitin in Ireland, bootleggers in America and peat in Scotland through names new to me that should be talked about far more than they are now.
To me, the most fascinating tales were of the wives and daughters who inherited distilleries and proceeded to run them very well. Basically men had to die for a woman to run a distillery.
Thankfully, this is shifting in the right direction but it is still too slow for my taste. Minnick shows page after page and woman after woman that we miss out when we don’t allow everyone to rise to their potential.